Immanuel Kant’s Deduction of the Categories of Quantity as a Stepping Stone to Exploring the Relation between Transcendental and Formal Logic and their respective Metaphysical Implications Ghent University
For many years there have been discussions about how exactly Immanuel Kant’s categories of quantity should be derived from the quantitative forms of judgment. This research proposal aims to connect this debate, which we call the "Derivation Controversy," to an analysis of the distinction between formal and transcendental logic, as well as to an analysis of the relation between logic and metaphysics in Kant's philosophy. The debate is ...